What Was There Do you ever wonder when you look at a place, "what was there before?" This project hopes to show you exactly that. Enter in a location and, if available, you'll get to see photos of what stood there at certain points in history. You can even contribute if you've got old photos to show.

Coffitivity Do you seek peace and quiet to get work done? In this day and age, that's doubtful. Some need white noise, some need music, some need gentle rain—but real workaholics need the thrum of life from a well-run and attended coffee shop full of customers. Coffitivity offers that sound on a loop, with different versions for morning, lunch time, and university shops. There are mobile and Mac desktop apps so you can take the noise with you if you're not online.

The Toast How to describe The Toast? Is it about bread, or about raising a glass? Maybe both, according to the founders, who describe it as a blog with features that can be on topics of any choosing. That may be, but you can count on a healthy dose of feminism and geek culture. What's more, the site pays contributors, and that's something to support no matter what.

The Museum of Endangered Sounds Remember the sound of Windows 95 starting? Ma Bell phones ringing? Tamagotchi? Those are just a few of the archived tech noises at Brendan Chilcutt's online museum. Click an image to get an aural trip to the past.

Giphy All the GIFs are at Giphy! Seriously, it seems like ALL of them. If it's animated and looping, it's probably archived here for you to view and share for your own use. Just look through the categories. The collection of facepalms alone could power social media replies for a year.

Zen Pencils Gavin Aung Than regularly takes inspirational quotes and book passages and creates wholly original cartoons that use the copy as both inspiration and caption for what's happening. Just about every week you can find his work alongside the words of people like Albert Camus, Bill Watterson, Neil Gaiman, Charles Bukowski, Marianne Williamson, and many others. Look for a book collecting his best work late in 2014.

FactSlides Need some random information to win every pub quiz in town? FactSlides has slide after slide after slide of facts. "Deepest ever animal: Devil Worm living 2.2 miles below." "Charles Darwin ate every animal he discovered." "Official animal of Scotland is the Unicorn." Sound made up? They've got links to the source of each.

White Whine If you think those of privilege have nothing to complain about, visit White Whine, the globe's finest collection of First World bellyaching about trivial problems. From loathing the color scheme on an iPhone to limos that don't have partitions to thinking the Grand Canyon view is "just ok," these are the people who'll make you want to punch the world.

Eric narrowly averted a career in food service when he began in tech publishing at Ziff-Davis over 20 years ago. He was on the founding staff of Windows Sources, FamilyPC, and Access Internet Magazine (all defunct, and it's not his fault). He's the author of two novels, BETA TEST ("an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale"--Publishers' Weekly) and KALI: THE GHOSTING OF SEPULCHER BAY. He works from his home in Ithaca, NY.
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